Currently Out Of Stock
Apartheid and beyond
Paperback
€52.19
Collect 156 Reward Points
- Currently Out Of Stock
- Book Synopsis
- Apartheid and Beyond offers trenchant, historically sensitive readings of writings by Coetzee, Gordimer, Fugard, Tlali, Dike, Magona, and Mda, focusing on the intimate relationship between place, subjectivity, and literary form. It also explores the way apartheid functioned in its day-to-day operations as a geographical system of control, exerting its power through such spatial mechanisms as residential segregation, bantustans, passes, and prisons. Throughout the study, Rita Barnard provides historical context by highlighting key events such as colonial occupation, the creation of black townships, migration, forced removals, the emergence of informal settlements, and the gradual integration of white cities. Apartheid and Beyond is both an innovative account of an important body of politically inflected literature and an imaginative reflection on the socio-spatial aspects of the transition from apartheid to democracy.
- About The Author
- Rita Barnard is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and Professor Extraordinaire at the University of Stellenbosch.
- Product Details
-
- ISBN
- 9780199791163
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, (13 September 2012)
- Number of Pages
- 234
- Weight
- 340 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 231 x 155 x 12.7 mm
- Categories: